The Groovy community is a very international one… so it’s no surprise that GroovyBlogs ends up getting entries in all sorts of languages, particularly Spanish. As someone with no exposure to non-english applications or any i18n stuff (shame on me, I know) all these UTF-8 issues are quite a head spin… So I’ve been thinking that some of those non-english entries look pretty interesting, there must be some Java translation APIs out there I can [...]

Jim Clark has put together a great little JFreeChart builder for Groovy called GroovyChart. I’ve been thinking for a while that I’d love to add some simple charting to GroovyBlogs, and I figure this was a great way to get into it. I’ve had a play, and could generate the demo charts just fine, but once I wanted to go a little deeper, I got a little lost in the builder semantics. It looks like [...]

After developing in Grails for a while, I went to a Rails talk by Matt. He demoed developing a little blogging app, and I recognised that I could do most of what he was talking about just as quickly and easily in Grails. But one cool little thing he demoed was the “rake stats” command. This gave you a bunch of metrics on your project (lines of code, test/code ratios, NCLOC, etc). Check out a [...]